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Lettersv Patent No. 81,755, dated September 1, 1868 IMPROVED QOMPOUND'FOB BMBALMING DEAD BODIES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAYYCONOERN Be it known that I, ELL OH H'. CRANE, of the city of Burr Oak, and countybf St. Joseph, and State of Michigan, have originated and discovered a new and useful Compound for the Preservation of the Dead.

This wonderful compound may be applied to the throat, month, and cavity from which the intcstincs, have been removed, in dry powder, thereby embolming and mummifying the flesh.

It is also susceptible oi, being made into alcoholic or aqueous solutions, and injected through the arterial courses, or otherwise applied to the subject, with the same preservative efiect.

This compound also prcserves'fatty matter, and hardens the fluids of the flesh.

This process can'be used for taxidermie purposes, witlr great advantage to the naturalist, on account of, perfectly preserving the form of birds, animals, and insects, together with being of powerful disinfectant, thus doing away with the trouble of-slcinning the subject that has commenced to spoil. I-Ien'be, specimens can be saved by this process that must otherwise have been-lost. v

The following is a full and clear receipt for the making of said compound, making part of this specification, which denominate Elliott H. Grane's Electrodynamic Mummificn" Nux vomica, one ounce.

, Alum, three pounds.

Chloride of sodium, three ounces.

Muriate of ammonia,-one pound'one ounce.

Arsenic, nine pounds.

Chloride of mercury, two pounds.

Oamphor, one pound.

Chloride of zinc, one pound four ounces.

The above chemicals should all be pulverized separately, then mixed, and kept in glass-stopped jars.

This compound hardons thc fluids of tho flesh, and suddenly arrests putriditiy, when compounded and applied substantially in the manner specified.

.What I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-'- p The discovery, application, and use of an cmbalming and mummifying compound for the preservation of the dead, and for taxidermic purposes, as prepared, compounded, and applied, substantiallyjn the manner specified and described.

I also claim the application of this compound, in dry powder, to the mouth, throat, and other natural apertures of the subject, substantially as specified and described.

ELLIOTT H. 0mm

Witnesses:

F. G. CLAYTON,

A. It. ALLua 

